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Tag: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

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How Russia will likely respond to AUKUS

by Alexey D Muraviev September 25, 2021September 29, 2021

The global opinions on the new AUKUS security pact between Australia, the US and the UK have been decidedly mixed. China and France immediately blasted the deal, while others, such as Japan and the Philippines, were more welcoming. Russia, one of the other few nations armed with nuclear-powered submarines, was more low-key and cautious in […]

US President Donald Trump wants to increase military spending, including a costly upgrade to the country's nuclear arsenal to meet the threat from so-called "revisionist" powers, Russia and China. But the move could pose significant risks to the American economy.Image: iStock/curraheeshutter
Posted inAustralia, European Union, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Oceania, Pakistan, South Asia, World

The long road to nuclear disarmament 

by Ramesh Thakur May 9, 2018
US America lunch ICBM missile for nuclear bomb test illustration concept. Photo: iStock
Posted inFrance, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Syria, United Kingdom, World

Denuclearization means the United States, too 

by Jeffrey D Sachs May 9, 2018
Photo: iStock
Posted inAT Finance, China, India, Iran, Japan, Mexico, Middle East, Myanmar, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, Singapore, South Asia, Thailand, World

Groupthink and the politics of language pave the road to war

by David Simmons February 23, 2018
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet at the BRICS Summit in Xiamen, China, on September 4, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Wu Hong
Posted inChina, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Asia, South Korea, World

US rejection of ‘double freeze’ will increase tension

by Ken Moak September 12, 2017
Former Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu flashes the V-sign   after winning his freedom on 21 April 2004. Vanunu said he was "proud and happy" to have blown the whistle on Israel's nuclear program as he was released at the end of an 18-year prison sentence. The one-time technician at the Dimona nuclear plant in southern Israel was abducted by secret service agents in Italy, then smuggled back to Israel and jailed back in 1986 after leaking details of the plant to Britain's Sunday Times newspaper. Photo: AFP / Yoav Lemmer
Posted inEgypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Middle East, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Russia, South Korea, Syria, United Kingdom, World

Israeli lesson: Japan, S. Korea will get nukes of their own

by Stephen Bryen September 12, 2017

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